France: The sofagate was a Turkish “trap” for Von der Layen

For a “trap” on the part of Turkey to the head of the Commission Ursula von der Leyen, he referred to “suffagateFrench Minister for European Affairs Clement Bonn speaking to RTL.

The French minister described the incident as an “insult from Turkey” and stressed that precisely because Ankara acted so deliberately, the incident should not cause guilt in Europe.

“It was a kind of trap,” he said.

Referring to a comment by Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, who described Erdogan as a “dictator”, the French European minister said there was “a real problem of disrespect for democracy and a momentum of authoritarianism in Turkey that should push Europe to stick to its positions opposite Ankara.

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